Streaming service Tidal under fire over late royalty payments

And today, fresh revelations from Dagens Næringsliv suggest that TIDAL is significantly behind with its royalty payments to music industry rights-holders.

Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv is reporting that at least three major music companies are concerned over late payments and underpayments from streaming music service TIDAL.

Specifically, the Apple Music rival is supposedly lagging when it comes to paying three worldwide record companies, and in some cases has not made royalty payments in more than six months. Frithjof Boye Hungnes of Propellor Records, a company that represents many independent artists, says his company has "not been paid since October".

"It is correct that there are delays in payments from Tidal", explained Hungnes, who is one of two Sony-backed record label execs who corroborate the paper's report.

Tidal has had a rough time lately.

However Tidal does face other issues in that it is pretty rubbish compared to Spotify and rather expensive. Tidal has denied the accusations, saying the data reviewed by DN was "stolen and manipulated" and denying the alleged adjustment to royalty payouts. "This is a smear campaign from a publication that once referred to our employee as an "Israeli Intelligence officer" and our owner as a 'crack dealer, '" a rep said after the stats manipulation claims were made. "We've heard lots of complaints from readers that Tidal is failing to pay on time", Digital Music News founder Paul Resnikoff wrote at the time. "That includes artists, as well as entire indie labels".

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